DI Calder sniffs out a major secret in the latest Shetland instalment.
Warning: this review contains spoilers forShetlandseries nine, episode one.
Shetland isnt all sheep farming, ceilidhs, and charming gift shops selling hand-poured scented candles.
Well, they did, untilAnnie Bettwas killed by a single shot to the chest from an automatic pistol.
DI Calder had put the spy angle together by the end ofepisode two.
Thats what happens to those beautiful mind kids.
Accountancy had been Annies cover story until it was blown by her death.
That, and the sudden arrival in her extremely remote hometown of the man who is presumably her handler.
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Not thatShetlanddoesnt have time for Honda-driving mums; theyre some of its best people.
Tosh will solve her friend Annies murder, just you see if she doesnt.
It wont come without a personal cost though.
Thats the trouble with policing a small community; youve probably borrowed Tupperware from the murder victims.
Toshs response to Annies death was commendable.
While visibly shaken, she stuck to the books and kept a cool head.
Were still getting to knowRuth Calder, and lines like that tug us closer towards her.
It doesnt seem as though hes grown up with a lot of that.
One phone conversation from a mystery caller and it was goodbye toNathan Huang.
Perhaps Bergen knew that he was in danger and wanted to protect Nate?
Theres deffo something fishy about the family Anton was working for, and not just because theyre Scandinavian.
Are both things connected?
And where do the mussel-farming Harris family fit in?
More useful than Lisa Friels shopping trip into Lerwick, at least.
Lisas argument with Annie on the day that she died must have been of consequence.
All that effort and she still didnt get her Pot Noodle.
No dry-erase markers for this lot, their coroners reports probably come cross-stitched into locally woven linen.
Spies on Shetland, whatever next?
Shetland series ninecontinues next Wednesday November 20 on BBC One and iPlayer.
